Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is Noel Fielding as Vince Noir in the brilliant, mid-2000s British comedy, The Mighty Boosh. Is he the coolest character ever on the tellee? You decide… (I say yes)¹: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktT_P9W_iuo or, here as frontman of Kraftwerk Orange… Challenge: can you come up with a better signature move than this? And him as The Moon is genius: And this is all…
The past doesn’t define you – it’s not who you are. And neither do your future plans, which are not only reliant on things out of your control, but are tentative at best. For all of us. Every passing moment is a chance to turn it all around. But you do control your actions. No matter your past, at any…
Have you ever heard someone say this: ‘He’s a nobody’ ‘What’s she done with her life?’ ‘He’s no one. At least I’m someone.’ In Reality Bites,Winona Ryder’s character, Lalaina is having a crisis because of what she ‘should’ve have been by now’, and Ethan Hawke’s (Troy), tells her: ‘The only thing you have to be is yourself.’ Look at this.…
Sidenote: There’s a spoiler here. ——- So at one point in People Places Things Jemaine Clement’s character (Will) kisses his ex (Charlie), while in a new relationship with a new woman called Diane. He decides to tell her (and says ‘You said you didn’t want any bullshit’, to which she says ‘No, you know, I meant like regular bullshit, not like…
I wrote about this quote the other day (still don’t know who said it though): What is Happiness? It’s the moment right before you need more happiness. And in People Places Things, Jemaine Clement’s character gets asked by his ex-wife: Are you happy? His reply: Happiness is not a sustainable condition. And I agree. Happiness is fanciful, head in the clouds,…
I’ve talked before about a past teacher of mine who gave heaps of fucks about learning. This is another one: Dr. Howard Good. Professor Good’s another one of my top 5 favourite teachers of all time. I took his ‘Press in America’ class at SUNY New Paltz in New York State, back in ’07 (almost 10 years to the day, actually).…
There’s so much first-rate philosophy fanned out across both Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey, but theirs comes down to this: The first part… just. Works. Be excellent to each other (and then after that… party on). Instead of judging and saying people do stupid shit, or criticising them for not doing things the way you think’s right, fuck…
This is Xavier from the movie, The Spanish Apartment (or its original French title, L’Auberge espagnole): But Xavier isn’t just Xavier. Just like you aren’t just you: Everything you do, have done, or will do is a collection of the data and influence and guidance of people upon people, things upon things. It’s why when someone says ‘That’s just who I am’ it doesn’t…
If every time you spend time with your partner, she only talks about depressing stuff, constantly bums you out and makes you feel bad, would you stay in that relationship? Or say you have a friend that you only see for about half an hour a day, but every time you do, every single day, he tells you these things, in this exact order:…
The words ‘I’m’ and ‘bored’, when put together in that exact order, make up my most hated expression in the English language. (Sidenote: This is what it translates to, in case you’re wondering.) Any library has thousands of books (e.g. my local one has 88,000), each with thousands of words, about thousands of things we know little or nothing about. But I get that…